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TIL A Colombian drug cartel put a $70,000 bounty on a police dog because it sniffed out almost 10 tons of drugs in 300+ operations, leading to 245 arrests.
https://cbsn.ws/2IzGGbH

Submitted April 23, 2019 at 03:50PM by amansaggu26
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TIL John Hughes filmed "The Breakfast Club" and "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" concurrently to save time and money. He even used the same closed high school for the interior scenes, but built a second library in the gym for "Breakfast Club" as the original was too small.
http://bit.ly/Y1C5mP

Submitted April 23, 2019 at 05:18PM by Meunderwears
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Today I learned poison dart frogs make great pets. So long as they are bred in captivity (so as not to diminish population) They get their poison from their diet in the wild so they are harmless in captivity and can live over a decade!
http://bit.ly/2srNzQv

Submitted April 23, 2019 at 06:00PM by megamooze
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TIL A house cat bit its owner in the middle of the night to alert the family for the house fire. The family got out in time with no injuries and the fire department confirmed the cat was partially responsible for the rescue, "Hero kitty"
https://cbsn.ws/2OWyvX5

Submitted April 23, 2019 at 08:16PM by BV05
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TIL Lemmy Kilmister of Motörhead loved to play a particular arcade game at his local bar. When he found out he was terminally ill, the bar owner brought the game machine to Lemmy's apartment so he could keep playing it at home.
http://bit.ly/2XwR1bI

Submitted April 23, 2019 at 11:30PM by silversunshinestares
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TIL that contrary to popular belief, the vast majority born in California remain in California rather than moving to other States. California actually has one of the highest retention rates for native born citizens in the country.
https://nyti.ms/2tiBxJQ

Submitted April 23, 2019 at 08:53PM by MrTwo-Face
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TIL The Roman Catholic Church fully accepted the theory of evolution back in 1950. They accept it provided that Christians believe that God created all things and that the individual soul is a direct creation by God and not the product of purely material forces.
http://bit.ly/1MWfQm0

Submitted April 23, 2019 at 08:12PM by SEO_Unleashed
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TIL that in Australia when it gets very hot, the nectar in some flowers ferments and turns into alcohol. The bees get "drunk" and are not allowed back into the hive
http://bit.ly/2IBg6Pl

Submitted April 23, 2019 at 11:40PM by neymarxjordanjunior
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TIL that Natalie Portman speaks Hebrew(native), English, French, German, Spanish and Japanese. As a student, she co-authored two research papers that were published in scientific journals.
http://bit.ly/2Uzl3d1

Submitted April 24, 2019 at 04:44AM by imad7x
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TIL that the color orange was called "red-yellow" until the English-speaking world was introduced to the fruit that was named "orange."
http://bit.ly/1KwKK7G

Submitted April 23, 2019 at 09:01PM by rosegamm
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TIL Mount Everest is only the world's tallest mountain as measured from sea level. But since the earth bulges at the equator, the mountain Chimborazo in Ecuador is the tallest mountain if you measure from the earth's core.
http://bit.ly/2ICR2aL

Submitted April 24, 2019 at 02:24AM by brantlymillegan
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TIL a Saudi man, who was then the heaviest person alive and the second heaviest person ever recorded at 1340lbs (610kg) in 2013, was ordered by his King to lose weight. He then lost 1195lbs, and in 2017, weighed just 150lbs(68kg).
http://bit.ly/2IBz48v

Submitted April 24, 2019 at 02:35AM by LawyersAreFriends
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TIL Einstein failing a math exam is a myth. He failed the entrance exam to Zurich Polytechnic because he did poorly on botany, zoology and language sections.
http://bit.ly/2ZuCajT

Submitted April 24, 2019 at 01:15PM by amansaggu26
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TIL in 2016, Alex Trebek, the host of "Jeopardy!", donated a total of $7.5 million to his Alma mater, University of Ottawa, to fund a Forum for Dialogue and a Speaker Series. The goal is to expose students to different world views through discussions and panels by speakers from around the world.
http://bit.ly/2GxVdB3

Submitted April 24, 2019 at 08:09AM by EnoughPM2020
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TIL that the telecom company Sprint was built on infrastructure belonging to the former Southern Pacific Railroad, where it gets its name from: Southern Pacific Railroad Internal Network Telecommunications (S.P.R.I.N.T.)
https://n.pr/2Cqucx4

Submitted April 24, 2019 at 08:20AM by AlternateLives
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TIL A Japanese fish called Hanako (1751-1977) lived for 215 years. The longest living koi fish ever recorded.
http://bit.ly/2UzkPTo

Submitted April 24, 2019 at 01:12PM by amansaggu26
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TIL that George Clooney spent his Nespresso earnings on a spy satellite to watch Sudan warlord accused of genocide and other war crimes, Omar Al Bashir.
http://bit.ly/2W4mZfc

Submitted April 24, 2019 at 12:29PM by moffmj
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TIL The founder of Mormonism was shot several times, fell out of a window, died, and proceeded to be shot more.
http://bit.ly/1VEpJ0n

Submitted April 24, 2019 at 09:07AM by happytree23
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TIL In 2006, The FBI planted an informant in a Southern California mosque who pretended to be a radical Muslim and the Muslims at the mosque reported him to the FBI.
https://ind.pn/2IU6GxG

Submitted April 24, 2019 at 05:13PM by Azygousvein
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TIL Psychogenic death is real. It isn't suicide, it isn't linked to depression, but the act of giving up on life and dying usually within days, is a very real condition often linked to severe trauma. People die because they have given up and feel life has beaten them and defeat is inescapable.
http://bit.ly/2vi4QPn

Submitted April 24, 2019 at 05:28PM by chercheur17
via reddit http://bit.ly/2PAof7z